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Article: Isaac Rosenfeld's Dybbuk and rethinking literary biography.
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- Partisan Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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There were evenings in Barrow Street, while I played the violin part in Bach's B-minor to Isaac's flute, when his musical sense of style would make me gasp. It was as exquisite as his handwriting. Isaac always meant to perform well. The flute dominates the B-minor Suite, and Isaac certainly came in strong. The sound of these notes reverberating off Isaac's breath like water drops were of a silvery intensity. It seemed to me that Isaac expressed himself in perfection at last, wrote his signature on the air.
--Alfred Kazin, New York Jew
Elegiac in tone, the passage is meant, as I see it, to consign Isaac Rosenfeld to the dustbin. In Alfred Kazin's ...